The people, places and memories behind every song on Do Good, Be Well, Have Fun, in Don’s own words.
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Gulf Coast Highway
This is the only cover song on the album but it is so near and dear to my roots that I had…
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Beauty of a Star
One day I was in Chico’s home in San Antonio and I noticed a framed, typewritten yellowed document. I took a closer look…
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Big Yellow House
When I was at the University of Texas in Austin in the 1970s, my grandfather told me about a house his father,…
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Higher Ground
I originally called this song The Gift when I wrote it some years ago. Unfortunately, alcohol and drug addiction has taken a major…
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Secret Lake
When my son Matt was in high school, he was given the assignment to write a poem in the style of Emily…
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Cobalt Fire Flower
This is a song about an extraordinary dream I had where I suddenly found myself in a scene where the devil was…
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Do Good, Be Well, Have Fun
When my older son Matt was young and he was going out to play, I’d tell him to have fun. At some point,…
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If I Were Jesus
This song is a bit irreverent and certainly a departure from my first album but I’ve had the tune stuck in my…
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Grace
The first song I wrote on this album was “Grace”. Grace is my four year old goddaughter and her dad is my…
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Golden Boy
One of my brothers, Neil, tried heroin at the age of 15 and by the time he was 17, he was on…
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A Treasury of the Familiar
My grandfather Don (whose first name was Walter) said that the first time he saw his future wife, he was working in…